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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

INTERGEO Releases Detailed Final Report

Dr. Hartmut Rosengarten gave a concise summary of the three days of INTERGEO in Cologne: Whereas the focus in 2009 was on “Geo is in”, the talk among industry representatives this year was of “Geo is interconnecting”. The Chairman of the INTERGEO Exhibitor Advisory Board also emphasised that geodata is a key element in today’s

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

ESRI Canada Brings Interactive Maps to BlackBerry Smartphones with Freeance Mobile

ESRI Canada today announced that the company has signed an agreement to become the exclusive Canadian distributor of TDC Group’s Freeance Mobile for BlackBerry.  The solution helps organizations maximize their investment in ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology by pushing out GIS data and applications to field workers using BlackBerry smartphones.  Users can search, view and

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Research on Operator Variability in Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Call for Participants

Human perception and interpretation is an indispensable component in many aspects of remote sensing image analysis and other types of geodata processing such as GIS and cartography. The work of a human operator is often considered ground truth without any variability, but psychological studies in comparable areas suggest that this perfect picture is not completely

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

GLONASS Antarctic Strategy of Russia

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by his decree approved the development strategy of the Russian Federation in the Antarctic until 2020. and a more distant prospect. Reported by the press service of the Russian government. Under the decree, the objectives of the strategy are the realization of national interests of Russia in the Antarctic, in accordance with the norms

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Professional Care of GNSS Handheld with Internal Antenna: What Position Accuracy One Can Expect

In recent years, the real time GIS Market has obvious tendency towards position availability, reliability and accuracy improvement. Many users are not satisfied with standard open sky meter level and seek for (sub) foot accuracy in real-time.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Carbon Management Courses

HCA – Reducing carbon is crucial to successful, sustainable place making. Our learning programme and resources provide practical solutions to support professionals to adapt communities to our changing climate. Read More

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Special Crest Software and Hardware Bundle

Motion F5v Rugged Tablet for field use now bundled with CRESTdata capture software Special CREST bundle* Crest is a powerful software solution for interactiveasset mapping, data capture & condition surveys. Designed to interface to a variety of asset management and corporate systems to take your office to the field.Crest is the ideal software solution for

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

New Titles from Earthscan

Earthscan is pleased to announce that review copies are now available for the following new books which investigate important issues in natural resource management.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Government of Canada Investing in Environmental Improvements at Domtar Espanola

The Government of Canada is investing in Domtar Corporation to improve the company’s environmental performance and help drive the evolution of Canada’s forest sector. Domtar will receive $700,000 in funding under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (PPGTP) to replace the aerators at its mill in Espanola with more energy-efficient models. “Investments in projects like this

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Leica Geosystems Sweden and Swepos Sign Agreement

At the Beginning of November, Leica Geosystems AB, Sweden, and Swepos signed an agreement for the data exchange of GNSS raw data. Swepos is the national GNSS network provider in Sweden, which is operated and owned by the Swedish government organisation LANTMÄTERIET (National Land Survey). The Swepos network covers the whole country, offering GNSS-correction data from